Connie Hart b. 1917

Also known as Aunty Connie Hart
  • Artist (Weaver)
Highly regarded Gunditjmara basket weaver and community elder who began weaving in her 60s and facilitated the regeneration of localised Victorian Indigenous weaving practices. Self-taught after observing mother and local Elders.

Citations

  • 'Auntie Connie Hart Activity Sheet’, Koori Heritage Trust, Melbourne, VIC, Koori Heritage Trust archive made available to Storylines Project, 2008.

  • Robson, M. K. (1986), 'Keeping the culture alive: an exhibition of Aboriginal fibrecraft featuring Connie Hart, an elder of the Gunditjmara people, with significant items on loan from the Museum of Victoria’, Hamilton City Council, Hamilton, VIC.

  • Jackomos, A., Fowell, D. (1991), 'Living Aboriginal history of Victoria: stories in the oral tradition’, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW